Losing Queenyanna Could 5-Year-Old Still Be Alive? by Kayode Crown Courtesy Davis Family
Queenyanna Davis would have been 6 years old on June 23, but she was murdered. She attended Watkins Elementary School in Jackson.
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t was 9:30 p.m. on April 15, and Lukeitha Davis was getting ready to sleep in Wood Village Apartments in south Jackson. It was like any other night. She made a joke about her grandbaby, wore her night cloth and used the bathroom. As she was leaving the sparsely furnished living room for her bedroom in her low-income apartment complex, suddenly all hell broke loose. “The next thing I heard gunshots. My brother was sitting right here, and my sister was lying down. I ducked and crawled right up to my room and laid on
the floor,” Davis told the Jackson Free Press later. The gunshots startled her niece, 5-year-old Queenyanna Davis, who was there visiting with her mother, Elizabeth Davis. The little girl was sleeping on the living-room floor but jumped up at the sound of the booming sounds of the gunshots. A bullet struck Queenyanna’s head. But she was still breathing for some time afterward. Two medical emergency personnel came soon after Lukeitha’s daughter called 911. An ambulance took Lukeitha’s brother and another boy, also hit by bullets, away but left
Queenyanna on the floor, bleeding, her aunt said. Another ambulance did not come for at least 90 minutes, Lukeitha Davis later told the Jackson Free Press. “The ambulance came in about 11:30 p.m. or even midnight, and then they still waited. They didn’t bring her out until the last minute,” the aunt said. “They said they could not move her, that they had to wait. I said ‘wait for what?’ That’s my niece, take her to the hospital! So why do you have to wait one hour and 30 minutes to get my niece off the floor? She was bleeding, she was still alive,” Davis said.
